Tennis

• Zoe Skoien, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2009

Once upon a time there was a ten year old girl called Georgie. Georgie was good at tennis and loved it but nobody gave her a chance. One day, she had to do a talk on a sport she loves.

AT the end of her talk, the room was filled with hands that had shot up. When Georgie chose Ella, and when Ella began to talk, everyone’s hands went down. Ella said” Why do you like tennis, I mean, everyone teases you because you’re bad at it”. Georgie responded” Actually, you never give me a chance. And if you did, and I was bad at it, well what I mean is, what’s the point of liking the sport if you always hit the ball, cause you’ve seen on TV that even famous tennis players sometimes miss and do they get teased…………..No. N-O”.

After that speech, no one teased or didn’t give her a chance. In fact, when she grew up, Georgie was a famous tennis player and won 17 Wimbledon Cups!